Monday, October 20, 2014

Current Office and Studio Pics 2014

It's been awhile since I posted pics of my office and quilt studio, so since I am cleaning them in order to make it nicer for when people come to check out the long arm I am selling to make room for the new bigger long arm I ordered, I thought this was a good time to update my studio pics.

This is the view into my office space

This is where I sew when I want to watch something on the computer. Under this desk area I keep 2 good size containers of crumbs/ fabric. One for neutrals and one for color.

I keep my treadle machine under one of my windows in the office

I also have a basic design wall in my office.

My quilt studio is right next to my office

I have a 2nd design wall in my studio

Opposite of the design wall is where I keep all of my long arm thread, easy for my customers to choose the color of thread they want on their quilts.

Under my long arm, I keep my fabric yardage separated into the 12 colors I keep.

Next to the yardage is where I keep my fat quarter storage

This wall runs parallel to my long arm and is where I keep my Bernina

To the right of my Bernina I keep some of my scrap user system...

and to the left of my Bernina I keep the rest of my scrap user system. Again all of the areas are separated into 12 colors. They are white, off white, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, brown, grey, and black.

I use my foyer closet to store my batting and right now on my dinning room table is quilts waiting to be quilted and lots of stuff that is being sold with my long arm.

Thank you Cindy, but how I organized the stash was 90% based on Bonnie Hunter's scrap user system. Also you can get great deals on the sterilite containers (like I used) at the walmart.com website, they sell them in groups of 10 for a really great price and the best part is they deliver them straight to your door. It took me about 2 years during the summer months to get it to look like it does.

JoAnn!...love your set up and feeling like I will never get there but I will...I stop and play too much inbetween...LOL but I have been using Bonnie's idea's and that is how I found you. :) So do you mind some long arm questions? What are you upgrading to and from what? I would love to buy one but have very little knowledge of what I am looking for...lots of googling I suppose would help but would like a long armers input. :) Thanks, Vanessa (Ness) Swedie61@gmail.com

oh my gosh. i adore your system; something to strive for indeed! a question for you - in which container do you store larger multi-color prints? this is always my dilemma when things "read" more than one color! or those pesky holiday fabrics that read both green and red!

When a fabric has a lot of different colors on it, I will look at the background color of the fabric and I go with that when sorting my fabrics into the 12 color families I keep. I also will put the aquas in with the greens, and the turquoise in with the blues. Or you can do what Bonnie does which is to look at the fabric from 6 feet away and see what is the strongest color that you see.